Buildings are not a problem unless they were built in order to for example cover a church (there are many examples in Poland of such fight against the Church). The real problem are communist symbols, symbols of enslavement of Poland by Soviets, monuments which are an offence to all Poles especially the people who fought for independence of Poland, and are being renovated by the present leftist-liberal authorities at variance with Polish law which forbids promoting totalitarian symbols.

Excuse me but what a load of horse manure. There are plenty of memorials remembering the atrocities done by the Communist regime against Polish civilians - Poznan '56, Gdansk Shipyards, to name a few. In addition, your paranoia of painting everything as a leftist-liberal 'conspiracy' is laughable.

Being brought up in Kielce as a young boy, I remember the coach station and how fascinating it was. It definitely sparked my imagination. Personally, I do not believe that it should be bulldozed or left for dead just because it is a communist-era building. If renovated and modernised, it could become one of the most iconic structures of Poland.

the station is now mostly associated with a spaceship, but the actual idea behind its appearance was a giant spider with multiple eyes and several pairs of legs, which was supposed to make a reference to the building's main function - public transport being an intricate web of routes and the spider-station being incredibly good at handling it.

the design isn't however most important in this bulding. it's the unique circle-based, collision-free layout of routes for coaches coming in and going out of the station.

the building corresponds beautifully with the behind standing neogothic church. this composition is priceless, but seems to be of no value to people who want to turn this area into a shopping centre with a bunch of cramped platforms for coaches. all wrapped in mediocre architecture.

Your own history is what makes your culture. The dark, the gray and the sunny pages. That, and my opinion that arguments as 'nice' and 'ugly' should not be a base for policymaking, is why I think the Poland people should be very careful with their heritage. It is an important aspect of the identity of Poland. And therefor it has also a major economic potential. Tourists will only come to places with an historical identity.
I really hope that they will find ways to keep their monuments, such as the bus station in Kielce. One of the ways is to find new investors and give the monument a new function. A library, a restaurant, a museum, an office, with some creativity it should be possible to find new ways. Especially in Poland, where the economic situation is getting better.

I remember being in Bialystok in the early 90's and the local disco was in a building that looked like a landed UFO. I loved it I think because you never see anything like it in my home country Australia because it was so nuts. Once its gone you never get it back

As someone who was born in Warsaw, but left at a young age, I don't feel pity for the demolition of 1960s-1970s communist architecture.

I haven't lived there long enough to develop a soft spot for these eyesores, and only see them for what they are: cheap, poorly built imitations of Western modernism.

This generation may be able to defend their demolition, but the next generation won't care, and they'll eventually go. They will never, and should never, be placed in the same architectural category as Renaissance, Baroque or Gothic structures.

The rotunda has survived because it is a reletively small building which is not too unpleasent to the eye which makes it an exception to the general type of communist style architecture. The same cannot be said of other building from that era of design. They tend to be big, square, in disrepair and resemble more bomb shelters then habitable structures. Most of them are being, one by one, knocked down as it is cheaper to knock them down and build new buildings then it is to refurbish them, besides, they are ugly and people and towns/cities do not like them spoiling their looks.

Mostly it comes down to economics. If you have a single-storey building with character and lots of parking space around and can get permission to bulldoze it and replace it with a 20 storey building, which covers the whole of the site and can be leased to a bank and have a whole shooping centre in the ground floor, sentiment and heritage go out of the window. So Mokpol sold Supersam on Plac Unii Lubelskiej in Warsawhttp://czarnota.org/gallery/displayimage.php?album=314&pid=10024#top_dis...